Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument that uses the difference in readings between two thermometers, one having a wet bulb and the other having a dry bulb, to measure the moisture content or relative humidity of air.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for determining the tension of the aqueous vapor in the air or the relative humidity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument for measuring the tension of the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere, being essentially a wet and dry bulb hygrometer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun meteorology Any of several instruments used to measure the
relative humidity of theatmosphere ; especially awet-and-dry-bulb hygrometer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a hygrometer consisting of a dry-bulb thermometer and a wet-bulb thermometer; their difference indicates the dryness of the surrounding air
Etymologies
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Examples
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Temperature and humidity readings have been collected using a sling psychrometer, a simple device containing two mercury thermometers.
Mount Washington 2009
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Where most unstaffed weather stations have undergone technology upgrades, consistent use of the sling psychrometer has helped provide scientific precision to the Mount Washington climate record.
Mount Washington 2009
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Twelve ordinary standard (psychrometer -) thermometers, divided to fifths of a degree (Centigrade).
The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim 2009
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To use the sling psychrometer, the wick is moistened with clean water and the device is twirled in the air using the handle.
Atmospheric humidity 2006
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A sling psychrometer is a device that consists of two thermometers joined to a piece of plastic or metal (Figure 2).
Atmospheric humidity 2006
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Re #202- Most weather stations in the past either used a sling psychrometer or had a piece of equipment called a TMQ-11 to get a dry bulb reading.
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Relative humidity is often determined using a sling psychrometer or a hair hygrometer.
Atmospheric humidity 2006
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Most of these people have no idea how to use a sling psychrometer or calculate a dewpoint temp from a wet bulb reading.
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Twelve ordinary standard (psychrometer -) thermometers, divided to fifths of a degree (Centigrade).
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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* To fashion the sling psychrometer, fasten wet gauze to the bulb of a thermometer, tie it to a cord, and twirl the thermometer at the end of the cord.
Chapter 6 1982
bilby commented on the word psychrometer
Hmmmm.
June 13, 2009